Cyber-Enhanced Rescue Canine

Ohno, Kazunori; Hamada, Ryunosuke; Hoshi, Tatsuya; Nishinoma, Hiroyuki; Yamaguchi, Shumpei; Arnold, Solvi; Yamazaki, Kimitoshi; Kikusui, Takefumi; Matsubara, Satoko; Nagasawa, Miho; Kubo, Takatomi; Nakahara, Eri; Maruno, Yuki; Ikeda, Kazushi; Yamakawa, Toshitaka; Tokuyama, Takeshi; Shinohara, Ayumi; Yoshinaka, Ryo; Hendrian, Diptarama; Chubachi, Kaizaburo; Kobayashi, Sei; Nakashima, Katsuhito; Naganuma, Hiroaki; Wakimoto, Ryu; Ishikawa, Shinya; Miura, Tatsuki; Tadokoro, Satoshı

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05321-5_4

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“…There are suits that are equipped with devices and the handler can monitor the dog's location or environment, interact with the dog or give instructions to the dog. Suits were presented that were equipped with GPS to measure the position of dogs [2], [3], [4], [16], [17], [18], suits that equipped with camera to know environment of dogs [4], [5], [17], [18], [19], suits that communicate with handlers by biting and tugging [16], [20], communicate with voice or sound [2], [3], [4], suits giving instruction with vibration [2], [3], [4], [21], [22], and suits guiding dog with an attached light source [5], [6]. Controlling canine's motion by sounds and vibration devices attached to a canine suit has been studied.…”

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Canine Motion Control Using Bright Spotlight Devices Mounted on a Suit

Nishinoma

Ohno

Kikusui

et al. 2019

IEEE Trans. Med. Robot. Bionics

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Engineering to produce stimuli that trigger an organism's habits allows us to control it noninvasively. Because canines already have the habit to follow a light spot, light is a good stimulus for controlling their motion. We employed green laser beams to successfully control canine motion indoors. We developed a suit equipped with laser beam devices that face front, left, and right. The canine wore the suit and followed a light spot on the ground. Its trajectory was controlled remotely by switching the lights on the suit. However, this laser beam spot was too weak and small to be visible in grassy fields outdoors. Here, we propose a spotlight device that irradiates a bright and large spot (70 mm in diameter) for outdoor environments. The proposed spotlight device consists of a high brightness LED and a convex lens. To evaluate its performance, we conducted indoor and outdoor experiments using three canines. In the indoor experiments, the success rates of controlling the canine's motions were 100%, 83.3%, and 93.3% for each of the three canines, respectively. In outdoor experiments, these rates were 100%, 57.1%, and 62.5%, respectively. Hence, the proposed spotlight devices are effective for controlling a canine even in outdoor environments.

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Canine Motion Control Using Bright Spotlight Devices Mounted on a Suit

Nishinoma

Ohno

Kikusui

et al. 2019

IEEE Trans. Med. Robot. Bionics

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“…In essence, our platform can be considered a form of bio‐logging, similar to devices worn by animals to measure ecological or physiological data (Chung et al., 2021), including birds that carry devices to collect video data on behaviour of conspecifics (Michel et al., 2021; Tremblay et al., 2014; Troscianko & Rutz, 2015) or cyber‐enhanced rescue canines (Ohno et al., 2019). One distinctive feature of our approach is that we designed a lightweight tag to collect both acoustic and video data.…”

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HawkEar: A bird‐borne visual and acoustic platform for eavesdropping the behaviour of mobile animals

Kloepper,

Taylor,

Domski

et al. 2024

Methods Ecol Evol

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Unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs; drones) offer mobile platforms for ecological investigation, but can be impractical in some environments and the resulting noise can disturb wildlife. We developed a mobile alternative using a bird‐borne platform to record the behaviour of other animals in the field. This unit consists of a lightweight audio and video sensor that is carried by a trained Harris's hawk Parabuteo unicinctus. We tested the hypothesis that our bird‐borne platform is a viable option for collecting behavioural data from mobile animals. We recorded acoustic and video data as the hawk flew through a dense group of Brazilian free‐tailed bats Tadarida brasiliensis emerging from a cave, with a test case of investigating how echolocation calls change depending on spatial position in the bat group. The HawkEar platform is an alternative for collecting behavioural data when a mobile platform that is less noisy and restrictive than traditional UAVs is needed. The design and software are open source and can be modified to accommodate additional sensor needs.

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